I’ll be at the International Primatological Society Congress in Tana in a few days! 🐒 Happy to chat with anyone who's around. Come say hi! 😄

Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨 The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (🧵 1/10)

(1/7) 🐋 Remember those humpback calf-perspective videos I used to share? Super cool, but they only showed what the calf’s camera could catch. What if we could zoom out and see the whole scene?

Most diving mammals must work against their buoyancy until they reach a depth where they are neutrally buoyant, but not adult baleen whales. They use their laryngeal sac filled with air to adjust their buoyancy to remain suspended effortlessly at any depth journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

🐋 Moms float different 🐋 In our new @jexpbiol.bsky.social paper, we explore buoyancy control in humpback whales. Mothers seem to actively manage it; calves don't. #MarMam journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

And really proud to see our work being featured in Scientific American. www.scientificamerican.com/article/baby...

Our latest paper is out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B 📄! We investigated the behavioral context of social calls in humpback whale calves. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Had a great time presenting some of our most exciting findings on the vocal behavior of humpback whale calves at the #SMM2024! Stay tuned. A paper is on the way! #Perth #Australia

Our latest article in Marine Mammal Science! We provide further insights on the time budget and behavioral synchrony of humpback whale mother-calf pairs on their breeding ground. Full-text > onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis (Uni Paris-Saclay and Uni Antananarivo) on 08/11/2023! The conclusion of a memorable journey with the best thesis supervisors in the world, Isabelle Charrier, Olivier Adam, Aristide Andrianarimisa, and Chloe Huetz!

#HiSciSky #AcademicSky! Finaly decided to join. I am a PhD candidate working on the #behavior and #acoustic communication in humpback whales (one month to go!). I study mother-calf interactions using #biologging techniques.